Evaluation of behavioral group counseling for parents of learning-disabled children
| Autor: | Gep Colletti, Charles Diament |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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Counseling medicine.medical_specialty Child Behavior Disorders Developmental psychology Treatment and control groups Consistency (negotiation) Behavior Therapy Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Parent-Child Relations Child Association (psychology) Psychological Tests Learning Disabilities Public health Training methods Group Processes Psychiatry and Mental health Child Preschool Group counseling Learning disability Female medicine.symptom Psychology Learning disabled Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 6:385-400 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2835 0091-0627 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf00924741 |
| Popis: | The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a behavioral group counseling program for parent members of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. Twenty-two mothers were assigned to two treatment groups (N = 5 and N = 6) and a control group (N = 11). Treatment-group mothers received a series of eight weekly 1 1/2-hour sessions in which they were taught basic principles and procedures of behavior modification which they could apply to specific child-rearing problems. Multiple-success criteria (maternal reports, direct observation, frequency counts, and attitudinal measures) were employed to provide a broad-based measurement of outcome. Results indicated that treatment ratings of childrens' conduct and disruption and parental postbehavioral observations of mother-child interactions showed improvement for the behavioral-counseling groups while control-group ratings and behavior observations remained the same. All treatment-group changes were maintained at 3-month follow-up. Consistency of treatment-group data across measures and over time suggests the effectiveness of this approach as a training method. Implications for future research were discussed. |
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